Os Sortilégios da (e)vidência
Phainomenon October 1, 2011 DOI: 10.2478/phainomenon-2011-0014 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper Peer reviewed |
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| Key points | Argues that Fernando Gil's theory of evidence, developed in Traité de l'évidence, is rooted in Husserl's phenomenology yet extends it by grounding evidence's first dimension in a primitive stratum of hallucinating aesthesia from desire, and by treating evidence as a threefold process from aesthesia to presence to intellectual grasping, with evidence understood as a hallucinating process spanning sensitive, perceptive, and conceptual life. |
Abstract
Abstract While not a phenomenologist, Fernando Gil was highly interested in some aspects of Husserl’s work. One of these aspects was Husserl’s theory of evidence. ln a notable book entitled Traité de l’évidence, he developed a throughout theory of evidence, paying close attention to the most important insights Husserl exposed his works. Gil’s theory of evidence is at the same time rooted in Phenomenology and extended beyond it in as much as he locates the first dimension of evidence ma primitive stratum hallucinating aesthesia from desire. Accounting for evidence as threefold process, going from aesthesia to presence, and then to the intellectual grasping of an individual object, the most interesting feature of his theory is the of evidence as a hallucinating process, encompassing all strata of sensitive, perceptive, and conceptual life.